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Desmond Scott passed away in May 2015 at the age of 92. The GEBCO community would like to express its sadness at this news and also to celebrate and record Desmond’s contribution to GEBCO. After a 30-year career in the Hydrographic Surveying Service of the British Royal Navy, Desmond was appointed

Knowing the depth and shape of the seafloor (bathymetry) is a fundamental parameter for understanding ocean circulation, tides, tsunami forecasting, fishing resources, environmental change, underwater geo-hazards, cable and pipeline routing, mineral extraction, oil and gas exploration and much more

London, UK, 7 March, 2018 : The GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team has progressed to the final round of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a global competition challenging teams to advance deep-sea technologies for ocean floor exploration. Of the 19 teams that competed in the November 2017 semi

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is teaming up with Fugro, one of the world’s leading private sector off-shore survey companies, to help map the entire ocean floor by 2030. David Millar, Fugro Government Accounts Director, Americas, speaking on the importance of sharing data to create

At a press conference, held on 20 February in Tokyo, the Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, has announced that The Nippon Foundation – GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is now operational. The Project will realise Mr Sasakawa's vision to map the entirety of the world's ocean floor by

The oceans cover over two thirds of our planet and it is often said that we know more about the shape of the surface of Mars than we do about that of our global seafloor. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between GEBCO and the Nippon Foundation with the aim of facilitating the complete mapping

The annual GEBCO Symposium consists of oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics relating to ocean-floor mapping and its applications. It is open to all to contribute and attend. The latest Symposium was held on 15th November 2017 in Busan, Republic of Korea and hosted by the

The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team has completed Technology Readiness Tests of its entry in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. Supported by KONGSBERG, their unique Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) / Autonomous Underwater Vessel (AUV) concept and associated combination of communications technology is

The GEBCO chart series was initiated in 1903 by Prince Albert I of Monaco - providing information on the shape and depth of the global seafloor. Through the 20th Century, there were five paper editions of the charts series before GEBCO released its first digital products in the early 1990s. The

The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team, one of the teams competing in the $7 Million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition, has entered its testing phase ahead of the competition’s upcoming semi-final stage. Find out more, read our latest press release (246 KB) The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a global